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Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Economies of DesireExamines the erotic underpinnings of transnational tourism. This title offers insights into the commingling of sex, intimacy, and market forces in Cuba and the Dominican Republic, two nations where tourism has had widespread effects. It reconceptualizes our understandings of informal economies, sex workers, and sexual tourism.
Full description- Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
- Published: 25 May 2009
- Format: Paperback 232 pages
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- Categories: Regional Studies | Sociology | Sociology: Sexual Relations | Sexual Behaviour | Service Industries | Tourism Industry
- ISBN 13: 9781592137503 ISBN 10: 1592137504
- Sales rank: 583,976
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Full description for Economies of Desire
Is a native-born tour guide who has sex with tourists - in exchange for dinner or gifts or cash - merely a prostitute or gigolo? What if the tourist continues to send gifts or money to the tour guide after returning home? As this original and provocative book demonstrates, when it comes to sex - and the effects of capitalism and globalization - nothing is as simple as it might seem. Based on ten years of research, "Economies of Desire" is the first ethnographic study to examine the erotic underpinnings of transnational tourism. It offers startling insights into the commingling of sex, intimacy, and market forces in Cuba and the Dominican Republic, two nations where tourism has had widespread effects. In her multi-layered analyses, Amalia Cabezas reconceptualizes our understandings of informal economies (particularly "affective economies"), "sex workers", and "sexual tourism", and she helps us appreciate how money, sex and love are intertwined within the structure of globalizing capitalism.
